Stratification effects and IUE spectra of high excitation planetaries

Individual strips across IUE low resolution images of a number of high excitation planetaries with appreciable angular disks (including NGC 2452, 3242, 6818, and IC 1297) are analyzed to assess stratification effects. The familiar enhancement of high excitation lines toward the center is well exhibited, but some unexpected structural features are found in NGC 2452 where C IV shows a single central maximum, but C III, Ne IV, and He II seem to have a central dip. The new IUE data permit improved chemical composition estimates for several planetaries previously analyzed by Aller and Czyzak.